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Jeremiah 14:1

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am 3399, bc 605

The word: This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew batzaroth: rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.

the dearth: Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints, Jeremiah 17:8

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